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Back in 1931 when the study of geophysics--or the earth itself--was about to be expanded, the leading Harvard pioneers in the Geology department were Professors P. W. Bridgman and Reginald A. Daly. Daly and Bridgman, along with a committee of other faculty members, and financial aid from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Geological Society of America organized an investigation. But the first step was the selection of a leader, since both Daly and Bridgman were occupied with their own work...
They chose Birch, then just an up and coming young physicist who had worked with Bridgman, now a leading man in the study of the combinations of pressure and temperature. With his changing staff--usually between four and five men--Birch has in most recent studies virtually disproven an old theory on heat convections causing mountains and at the same time advancing the study of the earth's pressures...
Signers of the statement from the University were: Kingman Brewster, Jr., professor of Law; Percy W. Bridgman '04, Higgins University Professor and Nobel Laureate; Edwin J. Cohn, Higgins University Professor; Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government; Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature; George Sarton, professor of the History of Science, emeritus; and May Sarton, Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English Composition at Radcliffe College...
...senior members of the Faculty--Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, and Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor--presented a resolution praising Conant's 20 years of distinguished service as President...
Purcell's greatest ordeal is yet to come. Last Saturday he left by plane for Stockholm, Sweden, where King Gustav Adolf will give him a medal, a scroll, and a monetary reward during the week-long celebration for Nobel Prize winners. "Bridgman (Physics Nobel Prize in 1946) has told the pretty well what to expect; it will be quite an affair. It's been so frantic around here I don't know if I'm excited , but I must admit I'll be glad to get away--after all you don't get the unless you go to Sweden...